[wellylug] I have installed Linux Mandrake 9.1, Now what?

Ricardo Gomez ricardogomeznz at yahoo.co.nz
Wed Apr 23 09:28:34 NZST 2003


video card "SiS 630" 
Video RAM "8192"
I thought they were recognised by default


--- Centurion Computer Technology Ltd
<centurion at paradise.net.nz> wrote: > No, It sounds
like X has not been setup correctly. 
> What type of video
> card do you have?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 09:00, Ricardo Gomez wrote:
> > I haven't changed anything. Do you think I should
> > install it again?
> > 
> >  --- Peter Jones <PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz> wrote: >
> I
> > recall Rose McG also had a problem when attempting
> > > to run startx with 9.1.
> > > 
> > > Prety sure every Mandrake install I have tried
> (up
> > > to and including 9.0) had
> > > the GUI as the default
> > > option, has something been changed?
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Stephen Judd
> [mailto:sljudd at paradise.net.nz]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2003 08:27
> > > > To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
> > > > Subject: Re: [wellylug] I have installed Linux
> > > Mandrake 9.1, Now what?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Welcome, brother!
> > > > 
> > > > Your friend (or many people here) could help
> you
> > > configure Linux to
> > > > launch X Windows automatically for you if
> that's
> > > what you prefer. I'm
> > > > not familiar with Mandrake's init scripts or I
> > > would myself. 
> > > > 
> > > > You don't have to go through the whole ritual
> if
> > > you always 
> > > > just want to
> > > > go straight into a GUI environment. Maybe Real
> Men
> > > always work from a
> > > > console, but life's too short to do that with
> a
> > > desktop 
> > > > machine all the
> > > > time...
> > > > 
> > > > Stephen
> > > > 
> > > > 
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